20th Century
Cape Fever
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1920: Nineteen-year-old Soraya, an intelligent and sensitive Muslim girl, takes a job as maid and cook for Mrs. Hattingh in an unnamed colonial harbor ...Read Review
There Was a Time for Such a Word
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In a tiny Italian village in 1942, Davide is the son of an illiterate pig farmer and ardent Fascist. Born with one leg shorter ...Read Review
The Infamous Gilberts
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There is a special delight in reading an author’s debut novel, but even more so when it delivers on its promise to ...Read Review
The Maestro and Her Protégé
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When Hannah Schaeffer meets Nadia Boulanger, a real-life composer, in Paris in 1959, she is just ten years old. But she is about to ...Read Review
Annie’s Day
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It’s 2003 in an English village. As elderly Annie prepares for a visit from her family, she’s dismayed by news of another ...Read Review
Wild People Quiet
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After a tragedy strikes her family in her Métis village, Florence Capeau begins to resist her Native identity. While still a girl, ...Read Review
Alias O. Henry
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By the time William Sydney Porter decides to make New York City his home, he’s already sold many short stories under the ...Read Review
The Fortunes of Ashmore Castle
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The Fortunes of Ashmore Castle is the fourth novel in the Ashmore Castle series and a sweeping, historical family saga set at the ...Read Review
The Water Women
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Opening in Sardegna (Sardinia) in 1910, this novel tells the story of three generations of water women, followers of an ancient tradition founded by ...Read Review
Nonesuch
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London, 1939. Iris Hawkins is a secretary for stockbrokers Cornellis & Blome, but she’s a would-be financier and the only person at the ...Read Review
